Hours after announcing updates to iBooks and iBooks Author at Tuesday’s iPad mini event, Apple has released iBooks 3 through the App Store and iBooks Author 2 through the Mac App Store.
iBooks 3 changes include:
- The ability to see all iBookstore purchases in iCloud in iOS 6
- Endless scrolling
- Receive free updates to purchased books, including new chapters, corrections and other improvements
- Look up definitions in German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Simplified Chinese in i)S6
- Share book excerpts through Facebook, Twitter, Messages or Mail
iBooks Author 2 changes include:
- The ability to create portrait-only books
- Embed custom fonts into books
- Additional interactivity with new scrolling sidebar and pop-over widgets
- Support for mathematical expressions with equation editing using LaTeX and MathML notation
- Automatic media optimization for iPad
- Improved support for embedded audio
- Improved publishing workflow, including automatic book samples and pre-publish checking
- Additional templates
- Version numbering
- Retina display enhancing for the new MacBook Pros
- Other performance and usability improvements
Apple releases iBooks 3, iBooks Author 2 originally appeared on TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog on Wed, 24 Oct 2012 08:00:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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